Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
The most precious things in speech are the pauses.
I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.
You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
Dead? No excuse for laying off work.
Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.